Westward Ho!

I remember reading Rainbow Six thinking it was a massive book but I went through it more quickly than I imagined I would - very good.

As for Pattinson - I wonder how much he writes himself - he seems to put out a book a month and surely he can't write most of them?

It's a bit like Clive Cussler - I'll read the stuff he writes (now with his son) but the stuff with other authors I'm sure he barely has any involvement in.

Demonlawyer wrote:I remember reading Rainbow Six thinking it was a massive book but I went through it more quickly than I imagined I would - very good.

Did you ever play the game??? My brother bought it for me years ago when it first came out, but I never ended up taking it out of the Shrink Wrap... lol Don't ask why, I haven't a clue, but I was going through one of my boxes not too long ago and there it was, I sat there and stared at it and then I said to myself "Why didn't I ever play this?"... lol

Witching Hour By Anne Rice

Rainbow Six was amazing! I remember it had some points where it dragged on, sort of, but at other times it was a page turner like there was no tomorrow!

-Fred

I am a big Sydney Sheldon fan and always looked forward to his next book. Michael Critchton too. Too bad both are deceased. The book world suffered greatly when they passed.

As for Patterson putting out books faster than we can read them, I once read that many prolific writers will work on more than one book ata time, perhaps several. Also, it's what they do - write! Many of them have fantastic minds, creating new stories and characters like we change socks or shoes (my wife rivals Imelda Marcos in that department).

At any rate, you you are looking for a great and fast read, try these: "The Other Side of Midnight" by Sheldon; "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown; "Airframe" by Critchton; "The Man From St. Petersburg" by Ken Follet; and, of course, my all time fav, LOTR.

I read a bit hastily and thought you meant your wife rivals Imelda Marcos in just the socks department Haha! That woulda been a sight!

But I see you have good taste in authors as well Jim!

-Fred

JTOG, you may be able to help me here - when I was young i remember my mum getting hooked into a sydney sheldon tv movie involving a guy and a girl. She started out as a diamond thief and I think they were both con artists, trying to out-do each other. I remember one main scene was on a boat with two chess champions and she was playing both chess champions to beat them.

Does any of that ring any bells as to which it might be?

Re-Edit: It's called "If Tomorrow Comes" and stars among others Tom Berenger and Liam Neeson.

-Fred

Thanks for bailing me out on that one, Fred. I was NOT able to answer DL's question. Still, I highly recommend The Other Side of Midnight. It is one of the best page turners I have ever read.

Bafitis wrote:Did you ever play the game??? My brother bought it for me years ago when it first came out, but I never ended up taking it out of the Shrink Wrap... lol Don't ask why, I haven't a clue, but I was going through one of my boxes not too long ago and there it was, I sat there and stared at it and then I said to myself "Why didn't I ever play this?"... lol

I sure the heck played it on the original Xbox. As a matter of fact, that was where a large chunk of my AT days were spent. (AT meaning After Tex of course. BT being Before Tex. It is currently the year 13 AT for me right now.)

It was one of the best shooters I've ever played hands down, but not for the single player experience. I was one of the first adopters of Xbox Live, and joining up in a clan called the nines we ruled the team compete boards for Rainbox Six up until they released Broken Arrow, I think it was called. After that game, the clan split violently (as all clans eventually do, due to power struggles.) and we went our seperate ways, but there was nothing more fun than a ranked 5 on 5 match on the training map. Small, compact, easy to learn and tactical as all hell. We had it set up so that I would cover the left side of the spawn building, Jetty would cover the right, Strict had the snipe point up top because he was just awesome, and Taz and Alex switched up on flushing them out into the open so we could nab them. Most people would always make the mistake of going balls out into the middle of that zone, but we were well coordinated. We got so good at training that people were beginning to set ground rules that the training map would not be among the three possible maps chosen in a ranked match. But since everyone always requested that, we always would get a ground rule of our choosing to be fair, so it always balanced out. I miss those days, as I never felt a part of a team more in any other game mmo, or anything since those days.

Nothing like a good online tactical shooter.

Man... my reading tastes are totally opposite to the recent posts.

Wife is reading sword of truth right now.....

I personally like fantasy and sci-fi. I think Dune is the best sci-fi novel of all time, along with 2001 a Space Odyssey and Rendezvous with Rama. The Dosadi experiment is pretty good too, but very strange.

As sci fi goes I strongly recommend Stephen R. Donaldson's The Gap Series, although it's kinda more of a space opera than anything else. Extremely good read though!

-Fred